In which the story of my get­ting in the mid­dle of a dis­pute between Stacy McCain and Charles John­son was told which led to a phone call by Stacy intro­duc­ing him­self, my even­tual ban­ning at Lit­tle Green Foot­balls, Dri­ving with Stacy cov­er­ing Scott Brown, CPAC2010, Meet­ing Andrew Bre­it­bart, the Radio show, the blog pay­ing the mort­gage and now My Mag­nif­i­cent Seven Writ­ers blog­ging here daily.

At the same time that my prospects have grown Charles’ have dropped. This week he reached what has to be his nadir as Stacy McCain caught John­son in state­ment so non­sen­si­cal, so mind blow­ingly igno­rant and so eas­ily dis­proved that I would have doubted he would have tweeted it with­out being paid to do so.

I sup­pose it is pos­si­ble that he was actu­ally igno­rant of this fact. After all since John­son has taken to ban­ning peo­ple who con­tra­dict him it’s cer­tainly pos­si­ble that he never saw those responses and is bliss­fully unaware of the actual his­tory of Man­dela. Alter­na­tively if he is paid to advance these posi­tions verac­ity would be no more impor­tant to him than it is to the staff at Media Matters.

Either way the les­son of Charles Johnson’s trans­for­ma­tion isn’t really the story of a blog­ger paid or not paid to change, or even the story of a sin­gle state­ment no mat­ter how igno­rant. It’s sim­ple physics, a story of Cause and Effect.

LGF was last linked by Glenn Reynolds Aug 27, 2009 (on rather­gate) and Charles last men­tioned by name on April 16th2009 (Beck v John­son can’t we all just get along?). Robert Stacy’s Insta­lances? I count 11 Insta­lanches for him since Charles last one. And here lies the REAL rea­son for today’s post by Charles… Look at this page, you will see that Charles last insta­lanche was his 234th. Roll that num­ber in your heads blog­gers that is 233 more than me (are my posts that bor­ing?) His first insta­lanche was April 222002. So in a 90 month period that is an avg of 2.6 insta­lanches a month or just under one insta­lanche every twelve days.

Charles slan­ders Glenn and Pat­terico calls him out on it. I’m not sur­prised by this and Glenn isn’t hold­ing his breath wait­ing for an apol­ogy but the best revenge is this, Charles has not man­aged an insta­lanche since Aug 272009 and Pat­terico just received his 2nd of the new year. If that isn’t enough my insta­lanche mon­day is one more than Charles has man­aged since then too . He’s still 232 insta­lanches up on me but I’m work­ing on it.

Bot­tom line it has been 56 months since Charles John­son 234th and last Insta­lanche to date.

With the num­ber of web sites in the world and in Amer­ica that is still an impres­sive num­ber how­ever it ranks more than 28,000 spaces behind Stacy McCain’s world­wide num­ber (68,116) and nearly 17,000 spaces behind his US rank (13,813).

Given McCain’s shoe leather report­ing and jour­nal­is­tic expe­ri­ence that might not be as odd as it sounds but it gets even more inter­est­ing when you com­pare Charles to a com­par­a­tive new­comer like me.

You might recall that at the time of Charles’ last Insta­lanche he was 233 insta­lanches ahead of me. Although it is nearly 1 in the morn­ing curios­ity got the bet­ter of me so I took the lib­erty of count­ing all my Insta­lanches since that day.

The Good news for John­son? He is still ahead of me on total instalanches.

The bad news? His lead is now 8.

More­over those 223 Insta­lanches in the 1564 days since Charles’ last one works out to one every 7.01 days or one a week. What has that done for my Alexa Rank? let’s answer that ques­tion in real time: Yes that right as of this moment world­wide Charles John­son is only 718 spots ahead of me world­wide 96,673 vs 97,341. In the US it’s a dif­fer­ent Story, at 19,446 I’m a full 11,287 spots ahead of Charles’ 30,733.

Now Alexa results fluc­tu­ate, nobody is guar­an­teed an Insta­lanche (my last one was back on Nov 21st)* and there are plenty of things I say that pro­duce dis­agree­ment & anger from the left as usual and even, on occa­sion the same from my friends on the right. But both sides know that agree or dis­agree they are appre­ci­ated when they visit and they’ll get debate rather than a curt dismissal

Per­haps Charles isn’t inter­ested in rank, per­haps he doesn’t care if he influ­ences opin­ion or if LGF is a part of the national debate. Maybe these days Mr John­son is con­tent in main­tain­ing a niche mar­ket pop­u­lated by the loyal wor­shipers of the Lizard king.

If so, all I can say is, may you be happy in the choice you have made.

Update 2: Replaced the word “Given” with “With” in the sen­tence on page rank because it sounds better.

Update 3: Missed a stray sen­tence frag­ment that I thought I had removed already, taken care of

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In February of this year I began the greatest experiment in the history of this blog by seeing if I could actually turn writing & reporting into a paying business.

Stage one of this quest was the attempt to raise enough funds in the course of a month to pay the mortgage.

In which the story of my getting in the middle of a dispute between Stacy McCain and Charles Johnson was told which led to a phone call by Stacy introducing himself, my eventual banning at Little Green Footballs, Driving with Stacy covering Scott Brown, CPAC 2010, Meeting Andrew Breitbart, the Radio show, the blog paying the mortgage and now My Magnificent Seven Writers blogging here daily.

At the same time that my prospects have grown Charles’ have dropped. This week he reached what has to be his nadir as Stacy McCain caught Johnson in statement so nonsensical, so mind blowingly ignorant and so easily disproved that I would have doubted he would have tweeted it without being paid to do so.

I suppose it is possible that he was actually ignorant of this fact. After all since Johnson has taken to banning people who contradict him it’s certainly possible that he never saw those responses and is blissfully unaware of the actual history of Mandela. Alternatively if he is paid to advance these positions veracity would be no more important to him than it is to the staff at Media Matters.

Either way the lesson of Charles Johnson’s transformation isn’t really the story of a blogger paid or not paid to change, or even the story of a single statement no matter how ignorant. It’s simple physics, a story of Cause and Effect.

LGF was last linked by Glenn Reynolds Aug 27, 2009 (on rathergate) and Charles last mentioned by name on April 16th 2009 (Beck v Johnson can’t we all just get along?). Robert Stacy’s Instalances? I count 11 Instalanches for him since Charles last one. And here lies the REAL reason for today’s post by Charles… Look at this page, you will see that Charles last instalanche was his 234th. Roll that number in your heads bloggers that is 233 more than me (are my posts that boring?) His first instalanche was April 22 2002. So in a 90 month period that is an avg of 2.6 instalanches a month or just under one instalanche every twelve days.

Charles slanders Glenn and Patterico calls him out on it. I’m not surprised by this and Glenn isn’t holding his breath waiting for an apology but the best revenge is this, Charles has not managed an instalanche since Aug 27 2009 and Patterico just received his 2nd of the new year. If that isn’t enough my instalanche monday is one more than Charles has managed since then too . He’s still 232 instalanches up on me but I’m working on it.

Bottom line it has been 56 months since Charles Johnson 234th and last Instalanche to date.

With the number of web sites in the world and in America that is still an impressive number however it ranks more than 28,000 spaces behind Stacy McCain’s worldwide number (68,116) and nearly 17,000 spaces behind his US rank (13,813).

Given McCain’s shoe leather reporting and journalistic experience that might not be as odd as it sounds but it gets even more interesting when you compare Charles to a comparative newcomer like me.

You might recall that at the time of Charles’ last Instalanche he was 233 instalanches ahead of me. Although it is nearly 1 in the morning curiosity got the better of me so I took the liberty of counting all my Instalanches since that day.

The Good news for Johnson? He is still ahead of me on total instalanches.

The bad news? His lead is now 8.

Moreover those 223 Instalanches in the 1564 days since Charles’ last one works out to one every 7.01 days or one a week. What has that done for my Alexa Rank? let’s answer that question in real time: Yes that right as of this moment worldwide Charles Johnson is only 718 spots ahead of me worldwide 96,673 vs 97,341. In the US it’s a different Story, at 19,446 I’m a full 11,287 spots ahead of Charles’ 30,733.

Now Alexa results fluctuate, nobody is guaranteed an Instalanche (my last one was back on Nov 21st)* and there are plenty of things I say that produce disagreement & anger from the left as usual and even, on occasion the same from my friends on the right. But both sides know that agree or disagree they are appreciated when they visit and they’ll get debate rather than a curt dismissal

Perhaps Charles isn’t interested in rank, perhaps he doesn’t care if he influences opinion or if LGF is a part of the national debate. Maybe these days Mr Johnson is content in maintaining a niche market populated by the loyal worshipers of the Lizard king.

If so, all I can say is, may you be happy in the choice you have made.

Update 2: Replaced the word “Given” with “With” in the sentence on page rank because it sounds better.

Update 3: Missed a stray sentence fragment that I thought I had removed already, taken care of

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It’s Tuesday and for only the second time since Nov DaPaycheck is full. Thanks all who kicked in.

Since we were short last week we’re about $221 behind the pace to make this month’s goal 9 $25 tip jar hits will make sure both my Magnificent seven and DaMortgage get paid when the month is over.

You can help us get back on track by hitting DaTipJar below

If you are a conservative the best gift you can give to yourself is someone willing to fight the good fight every single day. We need only 62 1/2 more subscribers at $20 a month to make mortgage and payroll every single week all year long.

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